Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is a social liberal political party in Japan that was founded on 2 October 2017. The party was formed by the center-left faction of the Democratic Party of Japan, which split from the main party in the run up to the 2017 general election. The party won the second-most seats in the election, winning 56/465 House of Representatives seats; the party formed the official opposition to the much larger Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, which held 284 seats.